Show fa b PRICES up and going up prices are going up P that Is certain they are already up so BO far as the or ori unary necessities of life are concerned A go good ad thing tor for producers of commodities modi ties eventually in the natural course of things a good thing tor for consumers since better prices for producers will mean better prices tor for labor but wages and salaries are lagging far ar behinds the rise in prices everybody must look forward to a long period or of 11 i I 1 do da not know why but retail prices in country towns have gone up 1 much more than in the big cities at least east to I 1 the east bread that used to sell tor for 6 cents a loat loaf everywhere Is now eight cents in new york sad and eleven I 1 cents la in berkshire Berksh lre county mass oth other er food products are up in proportion it if I 1 knew the answer I 1 would publish it it seems to me that our government has not moved far enough or fast en ought with its public works program GOLD new valuations halt of all the gold that has been dug out ut of the earth since columbus discovered c america has vanished nobody knows where according to the director of the mint who has been compiling statistics on the subject A little more than a thousand million ounces has been mined in the ahloe world in years or about 24 million ounces a year only about halt half of the total fi held by national treasuries and banks A lot of it lies at the bottom of the sea I 1 probably a third ot of the vanished gold Is hoarded boarded among the treasuries or of some of the fabulously rich indian princes gold Is worth more in dollars now than it has been since 1873 the united states has pawed passed canada and become the second largest producer of 0 gold south africa ranking first yet with more gold available than ever in history only prance france and three or tour four smaller european countries remain on the gold standard of money I 1 this Is my prediction every nation will be off gold within a few months then there will be a general world aide readjustment ot of currency values on a new gold basis and the next generation will have forgotten that gold was ever as cheap as 21 an ounce LAND a great teacher the announcement announcement from washington that the federal government proposes to spend billions in building homes for industrial workers each with its acre or two of land to be tilled takes me back to my boyhood when I 1 used to hear my mother sing a song that was popular when she was a girl before the civil war the retrain refrain was for uncle sam Is rich enough to give us all a farm 11 farming fanning was the ideal mode made of life for most people in those days when young american men and women cherished their independence above everything else nobody expected to get rich at farming but it was a way to live onos ones own life and bring up a family comfortably and happily and there never was any question of how to spend le leisure laurel the best characters and the most self reliant strain in our american life came off that sort of farm I 1 think it would be a magnificent thing for our national morale it if every boy and girl today had to live and work on the land for a few years or part of every year MACHADO and our banks A friend of mine who owns a big new york hotel told me the other day that general machado the former president of cuba had applied to him for rooms by the year tor for himself and family twenty people in all including servants my friend turned him down because his hie other guests would feel nervous lest some cuban bomb thrower might take a a notion to get the general some night most 16 1 6 latin american ex presidents go to paris to live it when they retire or are forced ced out of office Ma chados predecessor ar general menocal has been living in this country for many years and has lately gone back to cuba where he has friends who would like to tee eee him b back in the palace judging by the rec recent ce disclosures of the amazing financial r relations between new york banks and cuban presidents the people of that unhappy island seem to vie me to have ben been mercilessly exploited forthe enrichment ot ol their rulers and their banking allies HELL mary ellens advice it takes a long memory to recall the time when mary elizabeth lease ol of medicine lodge was co the kan sea sas farmers to trade their cows tor for shotguns and begin to raise less corn and more hell bell mrs lease and kansas both leaped into national lame fame everybody called her mary ellen though her middle name was elizabeth that was when the were demanding direct election of senators postal savings bank government control ot of railways federal supervision of corporations the initiative and referendum the income tax woman suffrage prohibition and tree free silver mrs lease died the other day but she had lived to see them all come about except free silver and I 1 have a distinct feeling that it if she had lived a few months longer she would have seen that too in view of present conditions among the farmers it would seem as it mrs leases a advice had bad been taken and remembered sometimes it looks as if there were an overproduction of the commodity she advised the kansana kansans to raise |